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Duncan JonesCinematography:
Simon DugganComposer:
Ramin DjawadiCast:
Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Daniel Wu Yin-cho, Clancy Brown, Ruth Negga (more)VOD (4)
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The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something. (Universal Pictures US)
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If someone had told me that Warcraft would hold the top spot in my top ten, I would have laughed at them. I haven't played the game, but I enjoyed every title, city, character or creature all the more, I watched the movie like a deer and devoured every second of it, which is a positive outcome. The visuals are top notch and even though there are only four major action scenes, they have a lot of oomph when accompanied by the amazing music, in short, it's something to watch. Ragnar fits here like a glove, and you watch Vikings you will be delighted. There's also decent dialogue, quite a few death characters, and great production design. Nothing to fault here, certainly the best fantasy film since the LoTR trilogy, and the best cinematic adaptation of a game (we'll see how Assassin Creed turns out). I can't wait to see how this saga grows into hopefully at least seven more installments. Cinema a must, subtitles a must. I left the cinema downright excited after a long time, saying to myself, I want to see this again. Story 7/10, Atmosphere 9/10, Gore 1/10, Visuals 10/10, Action 10/10, Suspense 8/10, Humor 6/10. Entertainment 10/10. 100%.
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Duncan Jones tries to appeal to fans of all kinds of the source material, as well as those unaffected by Warcraft, but in my case, he only made it halfway, stumbling along the way. When unfamiliar characters appear a few minutes into the film, looking deadly serious and throwing around unfamiliar names, titles, or at least mysterious words like "Gul'dan," I didn't believe I could get into the story. Luckily, the whole mythology is not complicated, and everything starts to fit together, especially when combination with the adventure where something is always happening, and there is never a moment without one of the main characters fighting, enchanting, or at least flying around a battle or spell. The problem is that beyond the initial visual destruction or emotionally well-crafted soundtrack, there is nothing else. The battles, romances, pacts, and wars lack entertainment value, and the entire First Contact takes place without me starting to root for Lothar and his comrades. On the contrary, the only character who truly interested me and for whom I was rooting for dies in a shockingly routine manner. I wouldn't mind a sequel because with such breadth, there will always be something to develop, but here, there was a lack of soul that would have made this newly discovered universe feel close to me. 50%
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I got what I expected. A slightly above average fantasy film that tries to be spectacular and succeeds quite well, but unfortunately falls flat on its face due to the sometimes downright repulsive stylization (I get it, it's very subjective), but mostly due to the unfortunate casting of a good half of the main characters and the attempt to fast forward and untell everything. Because of this, it doesn't make any sense at all at times, the relationships between the characters don't work the way they probably should, and trying to show as many monsters, places, cities, spells and things as possible ruins a potentially interesting story that ends up being much more banal than it could have been. Fans will probably be thrilled, but all I got was an ordinary if fairly epic fantasy movie that was alternately quite entertaining and downright grating at times. On the other hand, I accept that it's the first film and they managed to deal the cards in such a way that the sequel could be quite interesting and I'll happily go see it in a few years. I definitely don't need to see First Clash again though.
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Essentially, you could say that it’s a rather adequately made absolute fantasy movie with everything that goes with it. So no Tolkien-like more history than fantasy or something in the style of The Game of Thrones, where it’s only after the end of the first season that you realize that this isn’t exactly a movie from the middle ages, but that it contains traces of fantasy as well. With this movie, that is clear already with the first digital orc character that appears in the first scene. At that point I realized that there was no other way, as the entire world of Warcraft is based mainly on nations such as elves, orcs, goblins, dwarves or the undead and humans are rather an ancillary nation. Or they do have their place in all this, but it is comparable to that of the other races. So, it took me about half the movie to get used to this film world. It was incredibly colorful, and the digital effect guys did a lot of work as well and looking for a part of the real world in this movie would be as hard as looking for a beer in a crate of Bud Light. But the second half of the movie got me up from my chair and despite initially thinking that I might not watch the movie to the end, the final war scene actually satisfied me, more or less. This doesn’t mean I would need to see the sequel, but on the other hand, I must agree that Blizzard managed to keep an eye of everything. I guess fans of “WoW” or “DotA” will probably die of bliss.
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Warcraft has high production value with a gorgeous fantasy world and great costumes, visually polished down to the last detail. I didn’t mind the absence of bigger stars, as I consider Ben Foster a great actor in his own right. My issues with the movie lie with my ignorance of the game, the rules of its world and types of spells, as well as with the dramaturgical simplicity of the story – I wasn’t too engaged by the racial conflict, had to divide my attention between too many characters and the deaths of some of them were given too little space with respect to their importance in the story.
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